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Uriah Heep The Magician's Birthday Moody Blues In Search of the Lost Chord
Uriah Heep The Magician's Birthday
Moody Blues In Search of the Lost Chord
Wow! A Heep fan. Tough call but I'd go with Demons and Wizards.
... Lost Chord is a great choice.
One of these days is none of these days.
~ H.G. Bohn
For me, it's The Protomen's first album. Partly because I randomly found it and party because it really grooves with me. Fast, aggressive, tells a story. It's a good rock opera.
It's also loosely based on Mega Man, so there's that too.
The combination of Trower's guitar and James Dewar's vocals give this album an earthy, rumbling quality - like a volcanic eruption, with periods of great upheaval followed by the slow oozing of molten lava. It is at once bluesy, psychedelic and hypnotic ... and never far from reach.
Not dead. Yet.
Jethro Tull - Aqualung
Perfect! Truly divine from start to finish!
How can we know our limits if we don't test them?
Break on through
All the songs fit together, and they stand up well on their own as well!
"Not to touch the Earth, not to see the Sun, nothing left to do but run, run, run..."
Prince of Fatness
Pink Floyd - Animals Yes - Close To The Edge
Yes - Close To The Edge
I was just going to mention these two. Good thing that I went back a page. A couple more...
Genesis - Nursery Cryme
Pink Floyd - Meddle
Neil Young - After the Gold Rush
Not at it at all.
Tom Petty - Wildflowers
Damn the Torpedoes
most any album by the Beatles but my personal fav- revolver
either of first 2 albums by Traffic-check out 40000 headman if you don't know this song (2nd album "Traffic")
Night Moves-Bob Seeger not sure lf he ever made a bad song
Tommy- by the Who of course
these would be the top of my list as I am writing this, may change at any random time (except Revolver)
Cool Jump Suit
Led Zeppelin - IV
As a kid I looked forever for Kashmir on side one of Led Zeppelin IV thanks to Mark Ratner. Damone was kind of an ass anyway.
So bittersweet,This tragedyWon't ask for absolution;This melody,Inside of me,Still searches for solution.A twist of faith,A change of heart Cures my infatuation.A broken heart, Provides the sparkFor my determination.
Someone mentioned Neil Young's After The Goldrush, perfection.
I also think Harvest and Harvest Moon by are in the same pantheon.
I saw Neil play back in '91 or so with Booker T and the MG's as his back up band. Blind Melon and Soundgarden opened the show. They were fine, but when Neil took the stage, he showed them how a rock performance was done. Amazing show. He has some of the most grandiose endings to songs I've ever heard—whole other art form almost.
I just listened to the The Beatles (a.k.a The White Album) on a recent road trip. It's the greatest example of a perfect imperfect album (could be another thread). A lot of the songs written while they were tripping out in India with the Maharishi Mahesh Yogi. The record is all over the map. Reflects minds becoming more unstructured, as well as a band. Putting that sound collage, "Revolution #9", on what was side 4 (yes, young ones, albums use to have "sides", and we did to them a thing we called "flipping them over") took major artistic balls—I'm sure some would call it an "over-reach", but great artists do that on occasion). I was only 6 years old when that record came out, so wasn't so aware. I wonder what fans thought of this particular piece being on the record back in '68. The only drawback of Revolution #9 would be that some people would probably stop the record at that point and miss that lovely last song, "Good Night", with Ringo singing. RIngo was always this breath of fresh air when his song came along (I still get chills when he comes in singing "What would you do if I sang out of tune..." on Sgt. Pepper's). The album is well-recorded, but it has a loose feel to it.
The White Album had to have as much impact on the bands that followed as Sgt. Pepper's did. No bigger blurt of eclectic songwriting and, perhaps, over-reaching, by a band that I've heard.
yes! definitely! well put! white album for sure s/b close to top of "perfect, imperfect" list/ based on its variety & collectilon of songs. songs like Helter Skelter (one of my all time fav Beatle songs) & "good night" on the same album? wow, what a range. only the Beatles could pull this off!
I have to have both albums, but I find that All my Life is sort of annoying and seems out of place.
"dancing on the path and singing, now you got away,
you can reach the goals you set from now on, every day"
Sonata Arctica
KillJoyFuckStick
Hahaha.
You people have issues
OOoh, and how about Violent Femmes (the first).
Oski - coincidentally this just got a mention in today's Wall Street Journal.
Did not realize this is the 30th anniversary of its release. Oy.
Dave
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Oski - coincidentally this just got a mention in today's Wall Street Journal. Did not realize this is the 30th anniversary of its release. Oy.
Annnnnnnd I feel old. lol